What's Biting
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fishing report
Updated: Wed Mar 25, 2026
Fishing Report 15 to 25 March- the weekend weather has just not improved resulting in not good fishing. Strong winds on the weekends are on Thursday and Friday just before the weekend have put the crappy and the bass both off.
The crappy guys are catching some back in the creeks up in the shallows, the water is warmed up 66, but a lot of the fish are being turned around by the wind coming strong or the wind coming out of the north and cooling the water a little bit.
Same thing happening to the bass. The bass are getting up to the shallows, but are often turning around so that on Saturday when most of the clubs have their tournaments, they are either having to put up with the tail end of the winds or with slightly cooler water from a couple days before and the fish just don't like it. They're pulling back, pulling back to the staging areas for both the crappy and the bass.
Try fishing the staging areas if you're not getting bites up in the shallow spawning areas. The staging areas are the eight and 10 foot levels directly out from the shallows, especially if there is timber/brush there. Try it there, around vertical structure, any deep water boat houses, any areas that you know of that have deep water rocks or clay embankment.
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